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Errors to Avoid
Checklist
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Errors to Avoid Checklist

Prevent rejection of your thesis (a return for partial or complete revision) by eliminating common errors.

Avoid the following:

* Most common error—Incorrectly spaced or formatted title page or approval page

* Inconsistency between the treatment of headings and subheadings in the Table of Contents and their appearance within the text.

* Use of unapproved font

* Inconsistent use of font, point size, bold, italics, and/or underlining

* Incorrect line spacing

* Incorrect margins

* Pages without numbers or the wrong numbers (including figures, maps, tables, bibliography and appendices)

* Incorrect and/or inconsistent placement of page numbers or footnotes

* British spelling (except in quotations)

* Inconsistent presentation of graphs, charts, illustrations, etc.

* Blurred or messy photocopies of graphs, charts, illustrations, etc.

* Low-resolution digital images not suitable for printing

* Onion-skin paper, or other textured or non-standard paper

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